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  • From: Willie McKemie <mf AT austinfarm.org>
  • To: Market Farming <market-farming AT lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [Market-farming] Managing lettuce (and veggie) glut
  • Date: Sun, 17 May 2009 15:22:05 -0500

On Sun, May 17, 2009 at 12:32:17PM -0400, Road's End Farm wrote:

> one bag. I sell lots of mixed-bag lettuce, but very little of the same
> varieties as individual heads.

I've noticed a similar situation with bell peppers. If I allow
customers to pick their own peppers, they agonize over their
selections, tend to buy fewer, and not buy the colors I need to move.
I remove color and size decisions by putting them in mesh bags with a
nice selection of colors but distributed to use all available peppers.
The bagged peppers seem to sell in higher volume and I come closer to
getting rid of all my peppers. Not just large ones or ones of certain
colors. It seems that putting the colors together in a bag makes them
more attractive than stacks of peppers sorted by color.

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